Azure Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Azure
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 353 454 597
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 18.75% 19.49% 19.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.37% 49.19% 49.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 300 415
10th Percentile £359 £425 £400
25th Percentile £463 £499 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% -2.61%
75th Percentile £674 £666 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
London median daily rate £543 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -1.27% -3.08% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £23.49 - -
25th Percentile £25.47 - -
Median hourly rate £26.99 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.90% - -
75th Percentile £43.02 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £72.53 £81.00 -
London median hourly rate £34.00 £23.80 £35.25
% change year-on-year +42.86% -32.48% +0.71%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 778 923 1,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.32% 39.63% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 607 845
10th Percentile £349 £400 £336
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £678
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 11
10th Percentile £18.65 £29.40 -
25th Percentile £24.61 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £49.83 £49.38 £43.38
90th Percentile £62.04 £75.25 £52.50
London median hourly rate £25.74 £32.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -20.82% -14.47% +47.03%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Azure job vacancy trend in Central London

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Central London over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Central London

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Azure

Azure
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Central London over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Central London

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London 0 316 £575 - 1,491
City of Westminster +5 10 £580 +0.87% 7
West End of London +12 7 £510 -2.86% 32
Camden - 4 £400 - 5
Southwark +1 1 - - 3
Azure
London

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 26 (7.37%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.68%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.98%) Confluence
5 6 (1.70%) Apache
6 2 (0.57%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.28%) CICS
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.28%) Luigi
7 1 (0.28%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.42%) Endur
3 4 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.85%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.57%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.57%) Summit
6 1 (0.28%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.28%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.28%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.28%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 105 (29.75%) AWS
2 71 (20.11%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (18.98%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (17.28%) Power Platform
5 58 (16.43%) GCP
6 45 (12.75%) Entra ID
7 26 (7.37%) GitHub
8 24 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (5.67%) PaaS
9 20 (5.67%) Power Automate
10 19 (5.38%) PowerApps
11 18 (5.10%) IaaS
11 18 (5.10%) SaaS
12 15 (4.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (4.25%) Microsoft Purview
13 13 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (3.68%) Serverless
14 10 (2.83%) Azure Machine Learning
14 10 (2.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.35%) Firewall
2 12 (3.40%) DNS
2 12 (3.40%) Network Security
3 9 (2.55%) VPN
4 7 (1.98%) WAN
5 6 (1.70%) DHCP
5 6 (1.70%) LAN
5 6 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.13%) Internet
6 4 (1.13%) SAN
7 3 (0.85%) Softphone
7 3 (0.85%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.57%) BGP
8 2 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.57%) MPLS
8 2 (0.57%) NGFW
8 2 (0.57%) OSPF
8 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.57%) SSL
8 2 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.48%) Power BI
2 21 (5.95%) Data Lake
3 20 (5.67%) SQL Server
4 14 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.68%) Relational Database
6 11 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.55%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.27%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.70%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.70%) Metadata
10 6 (1.70%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.70%) Redis
10 6 (1.70%) Tableau
11 5 (1.42%) Big Data
11 5 (1.42%) MySQL
11 5 (1.42%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.85%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (6.52%) Git
2 21 (5.95%) JIRA
3 13 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.55%) Postman
5 8 (2.27%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.98%) JUnit
7 6 (1.70%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.70%) GitLab
8 5 (1.42%) Maven
8 5 (1.42%) Mockito
8 5 (1.42%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.42%) Selenium
8 5 (1.42%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.42%) Xcode
9 4 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.13%) Subversion
9 4 (1.13%) XCTest
10 3 (0.85%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.85%) MLflow
10 3 (0.85%) Snyk
General
1 121 (34.28%) Finance
2 89 (25.21%) Social Skills
3 42 (11.90%) Banking
4 34 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (3.97%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.68%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.83%) Legal
8 9 (2.55%) Front Office
8 9 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.98%) Back Office
10 7 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.70%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.70%) Law
12 5 (1.42%) Marketing
13 4 (1.13%) Billing
13 4 (1.13%) Retail
14 3 (0.85%) Japanese Language
14 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (18.70%) Architect
2 55 (15.58%) Developer
3 43 (12.18%) Senior
4 32 (9.07%) Lead
5 30 (8.50%) Solutions Architect
6 29 (8.22%) Data Engineer
7 24 (6.80%) Analyst
8 15 (4.25%) Consultant
9 14 (3.97%) Security Engineer
10 13 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (3.40%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.12%) Business Analyst
12 11 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.12%) Technical Architect
13 10 (2.83%) Azure Architect
14 9 (2.55%) .NET Developer
14 9 (2.55%) Data Scientist
15 8 (2.27%) Data Architect
15 8 (2.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (12.75%) .NET
2 24 (6.80%) HTML
3 22 (6.23%) CSS
4 19 (5.38%) REST
5 15 (4.25%) OAuth
6 12 (3.40%) AngularJS
6 12 (3.40%) Kafka
6 12 (3.40%) Spring
6 12 (3.40%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.12%) PySpark
7 11 (3.12%) Web Services
8 10 (2.83%) RESTful
9 9 (2.55%) HTML5
9 9 (2.55%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (2.27%) Node.js
10 8 (2.27%) SOAP
11 7 (1.98%) JSON
11 7 (1.98%) React
11 7 (1.98%) XML
12 6 (1.70%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.38%) Cloud Native
2 13 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.40%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.83%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.27%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.98%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.70%) Derivative
9 5 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.13%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.13%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.07%) Windows
2 17 (4.82%) Linux
3 15 (4.25%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.98%) Unix
5 4 (1.13%) Android
5 4 (1.13%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.13%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.57%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.28%) AIX
7 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) Solaris
7 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (28.33%) DevOps
2 86 (24.36%) Agile
3 67 (18.98%) CI/CD
4 54 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (14.16%) Migration
6 49 (13.88%) Analytics
7 45 (12.75%) AI
8 44 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
9 37 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (9.63%) Data Governance
12 33 (9.35%) Data Modelling
13 32 (9.07%) ETL
13 32 (9.07%) Roadmaps
14 31 (8.78%) Machine Learning
15 29 (8.22%) Computer Science
15 29 (8.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 27 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
17 26 (7.37%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 82 (23.23%) Python
2 81 (22.95%) SQL
3 42 (11.90%) C#
4 34 (9.63%) Java
5 30 (8.50%) JavaScript
6 29 (8.22%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.83%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.55%) Scala
9 6 (1.70%) Bash
9 6 (1.70%) Bicep
10 4 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.13%) Groovy
10 4 (1.13%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.13%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.85%) C++
11 3 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.85%) R
12 2 (0.57%) COBOL
12 2 (0.57%) Perl
12 2 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 43 (12.18%) Degree
3 37 (10.48%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (5.10%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.83%) CISSP
8 8 (2.27%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.42%) CISM
10 5 (1.42%) MCP
10 5 (1.42%) MCSE
11 4 (1.13%) CCNA
11 4 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.85%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.85%) MCSA
13 2 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.37%) GDPR
2 23 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (5.38%) Data Quality
4 16 (4.53%) NIST
5 15 (4.25%) QA
6 7 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.42%) EU AI Act
7 5 (1.42%) NCSC
8 4 (1.13%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.85%) COBIT
10 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.57%) SLA
10 2 (0.57%) WCAG
11 1 (0.28%) GRC
11 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (14.16%) Active Directory
2 27 (7.65%) Docker
3 6 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.57%) vSphere
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (10.48%) Terraform
2 30 (8.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (7.08%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.83%) Ansible
5 8 (2.27%) SCCM
6 5 (1.42%) Grafana
6 5 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.13%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.85%) Argo
8 3 (0.85%) Istio
9 2 (0.57%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.57%) SCOM
9 2 (0.57%) SELinux
10 1 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.28%) Puppet
10 1 (0.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 129 (36.54%) Microsoft
2 43 (12.18%) Databricks
3 17 (4.82%) Oracle
4 14 (3.97%) Google
5 12 (3.40%) Cisco
5 12 (3.40%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.40%) Salesforce
6 11 (3.12%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.55%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.55%) VMware
8 7 (1.98%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.98%) Informatica
8 7 (1.98%) Splunk
8 7 (1.98%) Zscaler
9 6 (1.70%) Citrix
9 6 (1.70%) UiPath
9 6 (1.70%) Workday
10 4 (1.13%) Apple
10 4 (1.13%) Commvault
10 4 (1.13%) SAP